Hispanic Scholarship Fund Bilingual College 101
The College 101 Series features free, bilingual, 3-hour, college preparation workshops held virtually in various time zones. The programs are designed to help middle and high school students – and their parents – prepare, plan, and pay for college. Topics include preparing for and applying to college, choosing a college that’s the right fit, writing […]
NCAN Webinar: Moving the College Access Needle for the New Majority
While high school graduation rates have improved across the nation, large gaps in postsecondary enrollment and degree completion persist, especially for students of color and students from low-income backgrounds. These inequitable results demand new K-12 district- and school-level approaches for supporting students’ postsecondary transitions. NCAN’s new report focuses on four school districts across the country […]
Sallie Mae Webinar: Navigating Financial Aid Offers
After being accepted to college, you’ll receive a financial aid offer that outlines your financial aid eligibility at that specific school. Each financial aid offer will contain similar information overall, but since there’s no standard format they can be difficult to interpret. In this session you’ll learn how to decipher each financial aid offer so […]
Lumina Foundation Webinar: Equity First – A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Join us for a special conversation in our Racial Justice and Equity Series with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award winner and author of How to Be an Antiracist, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and editor of Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. […]
MOCAN in Partnership with NCAN: FCAN Webinar: FAFSA Verification Update – Reducing “Melt” with a More Targeted Approach
Too many low-income students experience “verification melt”, according to the National College Attainment Network (NCAN). Roughly half of Pell-eligible FAFSA applicants are flagged for verification, with 25% of them failing to complete the process. For many of these students, it will stymy their college plans all together. NCAN conducted a comprehensive review looking at the […]
Student African American Brotherhood (SAAB) Leadership Training Summit
The SAAB Leadership Training Summit is designed to effectively engage, develop, and train disadvantaged, underrepresented, and underserved young males of color who have promising futures as leaders, future husbands, and fathers along with becoming productive and contributing citizens in society.
